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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Acute Medicine Trust Doctor
Closed for applications on: 9-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Address
- Northumbria Way
- Town
- Cramlington
- Postcode
- NE23 6NZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £37,068 - £57,570 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Trust registrar)
Specialty
- Main area
- Acute Medicine and Palliative Medicine
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We have an opportunity for an Acute Medicine Trust Doctor, based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).
This role will balance your clinical time between our busy Acute Medicine inpatient unit (AMU) and our Medical Ambulatory Care (MAC) unit (which delivers same-day emergency care or SDEC). Your training needs will be discussed with a Clinical Supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below. Our team of Acute Medicine Consultant Physicians come from a diverse range of clinical backgrounds, including Clinical Infection, Elderly Medicine and Critical Care.
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The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:
Ø working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit
Ø contributing to our “Hospital at Night” team, including covering Gastroenterology ward admissions overnight
Educational opportunities
Ø Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history
Ø Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance
Ø Gain confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families
Ø Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team
Ø Understand the role of imaging and investigations, and how urgently these investigations may be needed.
Ø Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team
Ø Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training junior trainees in these where appropriate.
Ø Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills
Ø Attend / present interesting or challenging cases at our departmental meetings
Ø consider Quality Improvement / Clinical Audit opportunities within our department
Working pattern:
To be confirmed at interview, but likely to be full-shift, including day shifts and twilight shifts in SDEC and AMU, with overall 1:13 cover as part of Hospital at Night team. During shifts in AMU and overnight, part of the hospital’s cardiac arrest team.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our Acute Medicine inpatient ward works in parallel alongside the other NSECH specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine).
The AMU is our specialist in-patient ward for:
Diabetic emergencies |
Toxicology |
Acute oncology and complications of radiotherapy / chemotherapy |
Undifferentiated sepsis |
Neurology |
acute Rheumatology |
Acute Kidney Injury |
Headache |
We also look after our share of acute General Medical admissions. Every day there is shop-floor presence of Consultant Physician(s) from 8am-8pm.
Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted in the job description.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of some aspects of Clinical Governance
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of, and commitment to, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching basic medicine to undergraduates
Research, Audit and Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience of Clinical Research in Medicine
Communication, Skills and Abilities
Desirable criteria
- IT Skills
- Presentation skills
Continued Professional / Personal Development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to Acute General Medicine
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or MBChB or equivalent
- Fully registered with the UK General Medical Council
- Completion of 2-year Foundation training programme or equivalent
- Paid UK NHS experience working as a doctor
- Valid Advanced Life Support (ALS) certificate (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Paid experience of working as a doctor in UK NHS
- High standard of clinical skill and expertise in general medicine.
- Able to assess and review acutely unwell medical patients
Desirable criteria
- Experience of some aspects of Clinical Governance
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jane Atkinson
- Job title
- Consultant Head of Service in Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 6072648
- Additional information
Dr A. Chick, Consultant in Acute Medicine, NSECH, [email protected], 01916072671
No longer accepting applications
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